Jawed Karim
Jawed Karim | |
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Karim in August 2008 | |
| Born | October 28, 1979 |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (BS) Stanford University (MS) |
| Occupation | Software engineer |
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| Genre | Educational |
| Subscribers | 5.83 million |
| Views | 378 million |
| Last updated: January 6, 2026 | |
| Website | Preview warning: No official website (P856) found in wikidata. Nothing will be displayed. |
Jawed Karim (Bengali pronunciation: [d͡ʒabed korim]; born October 28, 1979) is a German-American software engineer and internet entrepreneur. He is one of the co-founders of YouTube and the first person to upload a video to the site. The site's inaugural video, "Me at the zoo", uploaded on April 23, 2005, has been viewed over 382 million times as of February 2026. During Karim's time working at PayPal, where he met fellow YouTube co-founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley, he designed many of its core components, including its real-time anti-fraud system.